JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – The Jacksonville Beach City Council voted Monday night in favor of replacing the Jacksonville Beach Adventure Landing site with apartments.
Council members also voted to reduce the latest plan submitted by developers from the original 427 proposed units to 415 units with 30 of those units designated for affordable housing.
They also discussed a parcel of the land being made available to the City of Jacksonville Beach for signage.
It would, however, still be three years before anyone would call the former amusement park home.
One resident spoke in favor of the ordinance, and six people spoke against it at the meeting.
The mayor clarified that Adventure Landing is believed to be “unsavable,” and Monday’s vote wasn’t about keeping Adventure Landing open.
Efforts to convert the site of the amusement park into housing started in June 2021.
Trevato Development Group is the developer behind the project and plans to build a 427-unit apartment community with about 5,000 square feet of retail and office space.
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Since then - the developer has been forced to adjust its plans by the city of Jacksonville Beach in order to get the land rezoned.
In its latest proposal, the developer agreed to make 7% of the apartments which is roughly 30 units available for affordable housing.
Adventure Landing makes up 22.2 acres of the site with the Trevato project comprising 53.8 acres, but only 10.9 acres will be developed.
That’s a 40% reduction in the total land development as permitted by the city of Jacksonville Beach Comprehensive Plan. The remainder would be conservation land.